PW Star Watch 2017 Finalists

“Indonesia has been interesting for me personally,” Page-Fort says. The language differs in its use of verb tenses and temporal references, and she calls working with Indonesian texts a “great education.” Indonesian writer Laksmi Pamuntjak’s debut novel “changed my life,” Page-Fort adds, and led her on what she calls “an obsessive quest” to study 20th-century Indonesian history.

For short, “idwriters” is a site devoted to showcasing Indonesian writers and/or book authors, along with their publications, journals, and other literary resources in English. Our main feature, the writers directory, provides a way for writers to find one another, but more importantly the resources provided makes it easy for event hosts,—especially for international event hosts—, literary organizers, arts administrators, librarians, booksellers, and readers to get in touch with writers. We built this site because we noticed the lack of resources dedicated to Indonesian literature, especially one that is accessible to the international community.